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Monday, November 17, 2008

I was tooling around some of the other blogs over the weekend that I consider to be in TVD's extended family of blogs and was surprised at the number of comments each post tends to receive. TVD gets its fair share of feedback from the readership, so I'm not griping. But we also get our fair share of direct correspondence from all corners of the globe and they tend to read, "Hey, can you repost such-and-such?" or sometimes just flat out, "Hey, please send me the Mp3 of such-and-such". Really--people write to request I just send them things no questions asked. Weird, huh?

So--new TVD Policy: we WILL from time to time repost things...just leave a comment at the pertinent post with the expired links and we'll designate a theme week where we'll get to all of 'em at once. Like THIS week where we'll get to the backlog of requests and spend some time revisiting the records most often requested for reposting...

...like this one from last Fall--Del Amitri's winning debut before they went all obvious on us and where their wordiness was indeed a charm:

Deceive Yourself (In Ignorant Heaven) The worldAnd the surrounding starsMight change completely in the space of an hourBut not an eclipse of the sky nor a colliding carWill turn me back now that I've come this far.Not a shotgun blast nor a shooting starWill bring her down from her stubborn tower.

Its a kind of madness, its a kind of sinTo live in the state of mind I've been living inHer face imprinted on my sightHer voice resounding in my skull at night.If there is a living goddess on earthIt must be her from the heaven highlifeIt takes this girl to realise what you're worthAnd I'm worth nothing if she's worth more than my life.

But there's more to me than simple devotionI wont just crawl at her feet and utter a pleaAnd if she refused I wouldn't walk into the oceanJust because my world was left all out at sea.

So it was in this cafe when we eventually metAnd I wished I had sunglasses and smoked cigarettes

The worldAnd the surrounding starsThey change completely in the space of an hourWhen over the table and two cups of teaShe told me she felt the same way about me.And not an eclipse of the sky nor a colliding carCould have shaken our attention from each others faceAs we both stepped down from our stubborn towersWe jump into the ignorant heaven that is the lovers place.